Benjamin van Vliet
After blindly buying Otis Sandsjö's Y-OTIS in a record shop in Helsinki and being blown away by it, I went back to the We Jazz label hoping to find more of that kind of electronic postjazzmadness. This sure fits that bill nicely. Totally unpredictable and unclassifiable.
Favorite track: Telefunk.
Enjoy "Spring Collection" with your NEON ORANGE vinyl edition of the album. Inside-out sleeve, booklet with artwork and poems by Todd Colby and liner notes by Jason Nazary.
Includes unlimited streaming of Spring Collection
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
This is the BLACK vinyl edition of "Spring Collection". Classic black wax, nice one! Inside-out sleeve, complete with booklet featuring artwork & poems by Todd Colby, plus liner notes by Jason Nazary.
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via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Fantastic, solid hi-fi CD version of "Spring Collection". Comes in a nice laminated cardboard digisleeve. No breaking plastic parts, this one's for the ages.
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Streaming + Download
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Signed CD
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Signed by NAZ.
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Tape
Cassette + Digital Album
"Spring Collection" on tape. Such a great match!
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Brooklyn based drummer/producer Jason Nazary (of Anteloper) makes his We Jazz Records debut with "Spring Collection", released on 25 June. The album sees Nazary crafting some deliciously sparkly solo cuts plus working long distance with choice collaborators Jaimie Branch, David Leon, Ramon Landolt, Matt Mitchell, Grey McMurray and Michael Coleman. This is essentially a collection of home recordings and the whole operation has an infectious feeling of immediacy to it. The result is improv adjacent electronic music, with modern production aesthetics transposed over spontaneous compositions.
Jason writes:
"With Spring Collection, my aim was to capture the spirit of spontaneity & collaboration lost in the absence of live music. Like most everyone else last spring, I suddenly had a lot of time on my hands and with all my work cancelled, and with an indefinite lockdown in effect, it became immediately apparent that most of my time – save a walk or two a day around the neighborhood – would be spent in the tiny one bedroom apartment I share with my wife and two cats.
What kind of music does one make during lockdown? I would begin my days with a cup of coffee and all the cables of my modest little modular set up in my lap, slowly discovering new sound worlds as I connected one cable after another – these became the beginnings for the pieces in Spring Collection. With these unformed sketches, I would record an improvisation, an exploration of sonics: a small kit of bells, shakers, pans, pots; their resonance captured in fine detail with ultra sensitive microphones. These became, in effect, a conversation first with myself, but later one I knew I had to open up, make social. In the desire not to diminish my collaborative impulses, I felt compelled to involve some of my favorite musicians in the process alongside me."
"Spring Collection" is released by We Jazz Records on 25 June on vinyl, tape and digital formats. The vinyl edition comes with a booklet including original artwork and poetry by Todd Colby.
credits
released June 25, 2021
Recorded & Composed by Jason Nazary
Jason Nazary: drums, percussion, synths, double knot, keyed mosstone, softpop, space drum & microkorg
With guests:
David Leon: piccolo, c flute & alto flute on "Pulses Of Wind, Real Or Imagined"
Ramon Landolt: kurzweill k2600 & piano on "Slow Bell Jawn B"
Jaimie Branch: trumpet & Juno-106 on "Dust Moths"
Matt Mitchell: Arturia MicroFreak synthesizer on "Dust Moths"
Michael Coleman: Roland JX-03 on "Rain On Cape"
Grey McMurray: voice & guitar on "Days & Nights, For Em"
Produced by Jason Nazary
Everything done at home, spring/summer 2020
Mastered by Dave Vettraino
Original artwork by Todd Colby
Artist photos by Emilie Weibel
Executive producer & design by Matti Nives
"This album is dedicated to my late grandma, Barbara Joan Nazary."
– Jason
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